abstract background: well-being is a subjective concept and means different things to various people. most of the research investigating the experience has concentrated on its problematic and pathological aspects. the aim of this research was to enhance the understanding of the contextual meaning of well-being based on personal life experiences of the participants. this will be of help to exper...

Adopting a primary prevention perspective, this study examines competencies with the potential to enhance well-being and performance among future workers. More specifically, the contributions of ability-based and trait models of emotional intelligence (EI), assessed through well-established measures, to indices of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being were examined for a sample of 157 Italian high ...

Among the large number of studies on adoption of mobile commerce, the major research perspective is the utilitarian factors. In this study, we interpreted consumers’ consumption experience of handphones from an experiential view of the intervening response system which focuses on hedonic factors of customers. We studied the following research questions. First, whether hedonic factors (e.g. subj...

Although a few studies have focused on mobile value from the distinctive feature of a mobile technology perspective, limited attempts have been made from a mobile user’s value tendency perspective. In this study, building upon prior research on productivity-oriented and pleasure-oriented nature of systems, we categorize mobile values as having utilitarian and hedonic use. Based on these two val...

This article uses the functionalist perspective of emotion to demonstrate that the influence of sadness on indulgent consumption depends on the presence of a hedonic eating goal. Sadness heightens a person’s sensitivity to the potentially harmful consequences of indulgent consumption, which decreases indulgence when a hedonic eating goal is salient. As sadness is often associated with a loss, t...

Sometimes people experience pleasant and unpleasant emotions at the same time in a single emotional event. Previous cross-cultural studies indicated that such mixed emotions are more prevalent in China and related to the attitudes toward happiness and individual's regulatory motivation. However, China is a multi-ethnic country and not much is known about subcultural differences in mixed emotion...

As Chinese game market growing mature, cultivating loyal game users has become the new goals for game companies. Based on the theory of game users experience, this paper constructs the structural model of customer with the variables of perceived value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty and studies the relationship between the game users’ hedonic/utilitarian value and customer satisfact...

Positive Psychology is contributing to a more precise definition of the outline of human well-being and is fully incorporating studies on positive elements (strengths and positive emotions) that are without doubt amplifying the framework of research and conduct of psychology, in particular that of Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology. Over the last few years, academic debate has, from a sc...

This paper explores issues of eValue creation within communities joined through the Web, and the implications on end user acceptance of pervasive information and communication technology (ICT). We draw on developments in several streams of research on network economics in order to understand the changed logic of value creation on the Web, and its implications on the moderators of user acceptanc...

Multivariate analyses are commonly used to study differences among items in a multidimensional space and to relate these findings to hedonic assessments of the same items. But there are numerous methods in use and the purpose of this paper is to review these methods from a process standpoint. Specifically, this paper considers the process assumptions behind several of the popular methods for mu...